Mokrani Revolt

Mokrani Revolt
	Part of French conquest of Algeria
	; Attack on Bordj Bou Arréridj by Cheikh Mokrani — Engraving by Léon Morel-Fatio, L'Illustration, 1871.]
Date	1871–1872
Location	French Algeria
Result	French victory
Belligerents
Algerian rebels:; Kingdom of Ait Abbas; Sultanate of Tuggurt; Algerian Zawiyas; Algerian peasantry	France French Algeria;
Commanders and leaders
Cheikh Mokrani †; Boumezrag Mokrani; Cheikh El Haddad ; El Hadj Bouzid †	Louis Henri; Léon Lallemand; Alexandre Fourchault; Théodore Périgot
Units involved
100,000 Kabyle cavalry ; 100,000 other fighters	86,000 from the Army of Africa; Native Auxiliaries
Casualties and losses
≈ 2,000 dead	2,686 dead

The Mokrani Revolt (Arabic: مقاومة الشيخ المقراني, lit. 'Resistance of Cheikh El-Mokrani'; Berber languages: Unfaq urrumi, lit. 'Roman insurrection') was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.

The revolt broke out on March 16, 1871, with the uprising of more than 250 tribes, around a third of the population of the country. It was led by the Kabyles of the Biban mountains commanded by Cheikh Mokrani and his brother Bou-Mezrag el-Mokrani and El hadj Bouzid who was the cousin of Mokrani as well as Cheikh El Haddad, head of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order.